Price of War: U.S. War With Iraq Would Come at High Price, Scholars Say.

Byline: Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Sept. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- War with Iraq would be costly - in any number of ways, two historians say. John A. Lynn, a professor of French and military history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and former Oppenheimer Chair of Warfighting Strategy at the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Va., says the United States probably wouldn't attack Baghdad, but rather surround it.

"This would save U.S. casualties, but impose hardship and suffering on Iraqis within that city," Lynn said. However, Lynn suspects that "the callousness that Saddam Hussein has shown toward his own people - a …