Original sentence: "   He was also critical of the press corps for being too accepting of the administration's propaganda on the Iraq War and of Condoleeza Rice for being "too accommodating" and being very careful about protecting her own reputation.But like others before him, he chose to play the Washington game the way he found it, rather than changing the culture as he vowed to do at the outset of his campaign for the presidency.He writes that Bush "is a man of personal charm, wit and enormous political skill" and that he "did not consciously set out to engage in these destructive practices.McClellan denied that Bush purposely lied about his reasons for invading Iraq, writing that the administration were not "employing out-and-out deception" to make the case for war in 2002.McClellan unexpectedly criticized the Bush administration in his memoir What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception, scheduled to be released on June 2, 2008
Edited sentence: He was also critical of the press corps for being too accepting of the administration's propaganda on the Iraq War and of Condoleeza Rice for being "too accommodating" and being very careful about protecting her own reputation.McClellan unexpectedly and harshly criticized the Bush administration in his memoir What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception, scheduled to be released on June 2, 2008