How America’s Brutal 15-year War In Iraq Changed Its Environment Forever

Alexander C. Kaufman, Mother Jones
Wed, 03/21/2018 - 3:00am

This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Azzam Alwash, the man credited with restoring the Iraqi marshlands believed to be the biblical garden of Eden, is ready to say something controversial: He welcomed the war. Even now―15 years after US forces invaded Iraq, ending nearly a quarter-century of Saddam Hussein’s rule and starting a war that has killed at least 1 million Iraqis and continues to destabilize an entire region―he sees the good that came of it. “The invasion of Iraq has resulted in a net positive for the nature in Iraq,” he told HuffPost by Skype from his office in Amman, Jordan.

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