Simple !
Killing Yassar will signal hundreds of sleeper terror cells that will bring the attacks worldwide and not just against Israel. Jews and Americans all over will be under attack !
I truly expect to see more suicide bombers within other countries. By doing so, the idiot media will show how Israel is somehow at fault.
I cannot believe that President Bush, wouldn't scream from the rooftops that Arafat is a terrorist, but for a few little problems.
Little problems like our troops spread out all over the world as we speak. We've got men and women putting themselves in harms way in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Georgia, Somolia, Chechnia, The Phillipines, several of the "Stans", Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Quatar, and those are just the ones we know about.
President Bush knows as well as anybody that proclaiming Arafat a terrorist and aligning even more so with Israel, (and he's done that as subtly as he can but unless we're all blind and deaf, it's obvious that he has supported Israel's right to defend herself), those men and women will be in even greater danger than they are right now. Not to mention the rest of the free world.
The difference here is that the Islamic radicals want to die for their cause. Our men and women are willing to but our government doesn't have to hurry it along now do they?
Oh, and let's not forget the sleeper cells that are no doubt already here in the US waiting for an opportunity and an excuse to attack here again.
We all have the freedom to call Arafat a terrorist because we're Americans. President Bush has to consider the safety of the entire free world as the leader of the most powerful country in the world. He doesn't have the freedom to speak his mind as we do. As much as I believe he would like to.