Original sentence: On the day of the speech, the Lincoln was only 30 miles from shore but the administration still decided to go ahead with the jet landing.While this statement did coincide with an end to the conventional phase of the war, Bush's assertion — and the sign — became controversial after guerilla warfare in Iraq increased during the Iraqi insurgency
Edited sentence: Further to the point, the blacked-out section of the Whitehouse video was on the bottom of the screen.If the allegations of cropping the banner were true, cropping something from the bottom of the page as well would have made the cover-up harder to hide.If the banner (which would have been at the top of the screen) was cropped out, putting a black-out bar at the bottom of the screen would make the video look more like a letterbox movie than a television image.On the day of the speech, the Lincoln was only 150 miles from shore but the administration still decided to go ahead with the jet landing.While this statement did coincide with an end to the conventional phase of the war, Bush's assertion — and the sign — became controversial after guerrilla warfare in Iraq increased during the Iraqi insurgency