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I don't see the security risk of being able to intercept or eavesdrop on a Bitcoin transfer.
All transactions are broadcast to all Bitcoin generating nodes, anyway, and the transactions are impossible to alter or forge (because they're digitally signed).
A man-in-the-middle could drop the transaction, but SSL doesn't fix that-- if they're relaying SSL traffic they could drop your SSL-encrypted transaction, too.
There are good non-security-related reasons for encrypting Bitcoin transaction traffic, though (makes it harder for governments/ISPs to do deep packet inspection to selectively drop Bitcoin traffic, for example).