I think progress IS being made in Iraq yes.
It may be slllooooooowwwwww but it is happening.
The UK forces have given 3 sectors over to the Iraqi government and are looking to give Basra back soon too.
From a personal point of view the sooner BOTH the UK and US forces have left the better. There's not a week goes by without some poor sod being killed / kidnapped or blown to bits in a war we really cannot win.
Look at Chechnia and how badly the Soviet Union fared against a determined resistance force
Rob