Here’s another apparently new journalistic technique, psychodivination. This one is courtesy of Time‘s Tony Karon:

Bush did not say World War III would be the consequence of Iran attaining a nuclear weapon; he said, “If you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from hav(ing) the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.”

Bush’s warning makes clear that the red line, for his Administration, is not an Iranian bomb program per se, but rather Iran attaining “the knowledge necessary to make” such a weapon — by which he means mastering the technology of uranium enrichment.

Boy, if I had a machine that told me the meaning of the things Bush says, I would not only be a journalist, I’d have a couple of Pulitzers under my belt.