Can you explain how a war against Iraq might discourage terrorist attacks against the United States?

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I'm trying very hard to understand this. Perhaps some of you can explain it to me.

Here is an example of this idea:

http://www.rightturns.com/freedom/facurrent.htm

Rating	Total	Female	Male	Unspecified	Average Age
Good	6	4	2	0	33.0
Bad	5	3	2	0	34.6
No Opinion	29	17	12	0	39.9

Type	Number
Abstainers	13
Male	14
Female	19
Unspecified	0

Qualifiers:

User	Vote	Comment
kaleb777	needs work	posted 23-Mar-2003 4:09pm This is NOT a hypothetical question. This is just a question. This should be under politics or some other appropriate category.
harekrishnadasa	reasonable	posted 23-Mar-2003 3:20pm
mandy	reasonable	posted 23-Mar-2003 3:10pm
pandora	reasonable	posted 23-Mar-2003 1:42pm
Biggles	reasonable	posted 23-Mar-2003 10:54am
Cleo	reasonable	posted 23-Mar-2003 2:07am
Strider	reasonable	posted 23-Mar-2003 12:21am
Zang	N/A	posted 23-Mar-2003 12:06am I don't know enough about the situation to make an informed decision. = No I cannot explain it. Other = I would like to explain something else on a related topic.
pandora	old	posted 22-Mar-2003 6:28pm
Biggles	old	posted 22-Mar-2003 5:53pm This is fine.
mandy	old	posted 22-Mar-2003 4:41pm This is a well formed survey. Don't give up Survey Creator.
ASB	old	posted 22-Mar-2003 1:00pm Please add an option for I don't know enough about the situation to make an informed decision. And an Other option
Box	old	posted 22-Mar-2003 12:47pm The question is STILL wrong and biased.
kaleb777	old	posted 22-Mar-2003 9:39am Speez- Yes, you people, as in the people who had already given the survey a reasonable despite the fact that the category was wrong. What did you want me to call them, you vegetables? Relavence does not mean bias should be allowed into surveys. Survey creator - I agree with pterodactyl. The question implies that this is the sole aim, and it hasn't ever been on any of the lists of aims. Perhaps if you added "using weapons of mass destruction" after "terrorist attacks" in the question. As the survey is now, it's not a hypothetical question. Even "How could a war on Iraq prevent UFOs invading Earth?" isn't hypothetical. Hypothetical questions usually begin with words like "if" or "imagine".
pterodactyl	old	posted 22-Mar-2003 1:14am I still have a problem with it. Perhaps you should change the word "will" to "could" or "might".
Strider	old	posted 22-Mar-2003 12:28am
Zang	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 11:47pm Box: That would be all fine and dandy if that was the question that I had. The connection between those two things might be a little less tenuous. However, I'm trying to understand the connection described in my question, so it doesn't really work. Did you read the link?
Box	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 11:22pm ...
Zang	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 10:59pm Okay, I provided a link in which the two issues are connected. It was the specific piece of writing that inspired the survey. I hope that satisfies the critics.
Zang	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 10:47pm I have tried very hard to avoid any kind of "biased statements". The reason it is a "hypothetical question" is that as some of my critics have pointed out, the two things may not even be related. However, the fact remains that *some people* are making such claims. One doesn't have to look very hard to find an example. If you are going to vote "needs work", it would be a lot more helpful if you actually provided some constructive criticism. For example: "The question should be worded..." or "You should have an option..." or "The category should be..."
Box	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 10:39pm I can tell you are biased from the start, and I think that the question should be more accuratly phrased. Say something like "How does the war in Iraq discourage ignoring UN resolutions?"
harekrishnadasa	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 9:48pm wees
pterodactyl	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 8:56pm The question implies that the US is waging war for the purpose of discouraging terrorist attacks. That is not accurate. You are making a straw man argument -- misrepresenting the other side's argument in order to make it easier to tear down.
Speez	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 7:17pm "You people"? I could ask the same thing about you and your views. Everyone is biased somehow. And this is pretty relevant to the current situation.
BrightBlue	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 7:10pm
kaleb777	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 6:09pm What's with you people? How about losing the bias and applying the same standards to this survey as others. I can't believe people aren't even picking up on the wrong category!
lily333	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 4:18pm
kaleb777	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 3:38pm And this is not a hypothetical question.
kaleb777	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 3:37pm I don't think the aim is to discourage terrorist attacks. It's to prevent attacks using nukes, biological or chemical weapons. It's accepted that there will probably be more attacks. Even without the war on Iraq it was accepted there would be more.
dora	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 2:34pm
teatree	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 1:53pm
darkshadowsseeker	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 1:09pm
Biggles	old	posted 21-Mar-2003 11:27am