The U.S. is shackled by the very forces that it liberated.

You don't have to be shackled by chains to be considered a slave.

hooded, shackled and kept in cages.

The main danger is that the constitution ratifies and exacerbates the sectarian divisions within the country, ... Both the process through which it was done and the content are deepening the divide between Kurds and Shiites on one side and the Sunnis on the other. If the constitution is only approved by only two of the three communities, it will only be a confirmation of Iraq's sectarian and ethnic divisions rather than an attempt to overcome them. This has not advanced the process of reconciliation it has only more likely is a step backward.

Economic collapse? Or a bottom? The high volatility comes from these two forces going at each other.

I was taken arrested put in solitary confinement ,shackled, strip-searched.