<p>Detour sorry.</p>
<p>Energy security is driving a frantic China to make all kinds of radical moves in foreign countries.</p>
<p>The US just finished construction on it’s 104 acre Baghdad Embassy–serving it’s eight permanent military bases in Iraq. Protecting US energy security is a priority, obviously. The real questions is: Why can’t the administration explain this to the US public? Why feed us so much pablum about “WMD” and “withdrawal”?</p>
<p>[Think</a> Progress PHOTOS: The $592 Million U.S. Embassy In Iraq](<a href=“http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/29/photos-embassy-iraq/]Think”>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/29/photos-embassy-iraq/)</p>