The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008 By Thomas Ricks. 394 pp. Penguin Press, 2009 $27.95 In 2006, Thomas Ricks, a reporter for The Washington Post, published Fiasco, a scathing indictment of the Bush administration’s war in Iraq. As he saw it then, the war was ill conceived, poorly …
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