'Stop Commuting to War'

In an exclusive excerpt from The Gamble, Thomas E. Ricks’s sequel to his No. 1 bestseller Fiasco, the author returns to Iraq in the bloody days before the 2007 surge.

Thomas E. Ricks

Published Feb. 10 2009 1:01AM EST 

Thomas E. Ricks

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