What remains now on the war funding front is to await the promised Bush veto of the record-sized supplemental appropriation bill Congress is expected to send to the president in the next week or so. Meanwhile, echoing the sentiment we expressed last week: Since the funding conditions may well, for all we know, end up as ignorable timetable "goals," it seems that the president is jumping the gun in issuing veto threats... Rep. James Moran (D-VA) asked this question yesterday: This bill already represents a heck of a lot of compromise... Readiness standards will have a waiver, and drop-dead dates [for the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Iraq] will probably be suggestions, so what's he vetoing? That said, speculation and evidence are mounting that Democrats plan a post-veto supplemental bill removing the language calling for a date for the return home of America's fighting men and women, or making the date "advisory".