We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.
If I die a violent death as some fear and a few are plotting I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins not in my dying.