OK, I have a serious brain disease so maybe this is totally insane but why can't the Democratic Congress pass two bills on Iraq funding. One has all the funding for the troops with the Murtha requirements and no "strings" attached. That is, no deadlines.
The other has the funding for "rebuilding" Iraq and all the stuff Bush really wants like funding for Halliburton and Blackwater. This has deadlines, benchmarks, inspections, conditions and anything else we want to load on it.
Now, I suppose he can veto either of these bills, but it takes a lot more 'splainin' to the American people because it's so simple that a guy that has dementia can not only understand it, but can come up with it. Why won't this work?