Delivering a feature address in Barbados yesterday, American economist and former CNN business reporter Stuart Varney was full of praise for the Bush administration.

He said there will be war with Iraq and this could be good news for Caribbean tourism.

According to the newspaper report, "He said the price war on gas would come to an end as prices plummeted after America gained control of the (Iraqi) oil... The American economy ...should show growth by a further four percent early next year if there was an attack on Iraq."

This is what most non-Americans have suspected all along as the real reason for the war, but to hear it put that brazenly was, to say the least, ...frightening.