Maureen Dowd skips the hallucinatory dialogues she specializes in and spends some time comparing the Bush Administration's words and actions to consensus reality. The gap is ... wide:

Bushworld

In Bushworld, our troops go to war and get killed, but you never see the bodies coming home.

In Bushworld, flag-draped remains of the fallen are important to revere and show the nation, but only in political ads hawking the president's leadership against terror.

In Bushworld, we can create an exciting Iraqi democracy as long as it doesn't control its own military, pass any laws or have any power.

...it's fine to take $700 million that Congress provided for the war in Afghanistan and 9/11 recovery and divert it to the war in Iraq that you're insisting you're not planning.

...you don't consult your father, the expert in being president during a war with Iraq, but you do talk to your Higher Father, who can't talk back to warn you to get an exit strategy or chide you for using Him for political purposes.

...it's O.K. to run for re-election as the avenger of 9/11, even as you make secret deals with the Arab kingdom where most of the 9/11 hijackers came from.

...you get to strut around like a tough military guy and paint your rival as a chicken hawk, even though he's the one who won medals in combat and was praised by his superior officers for fulfilling all his obligations.

...it makes sense to press for transparency in Mr. and Mrs. Rival while cultivating your own opacity.

...you can reign as the antiterror president even after hearing an intelligence report about Al Qaeda's plans to attack America and then stepping outside to clear brush.

...those who dissemble about the troops and money it will take to get Iraq on its feet are patriots, while those who are honest are patronizingly marginalized.

...they struggle to keep church and state separate in Iraq, even as they increasingly merge the two in America.

...we went to war to give Iraq a democratic process, yet we disdain the democratic process that causes allies to pull out troops.

Pretty good job, there. (TAPPED is right that the original title (from the editors?) is mighty strange, so I titled it properly.)