If the removal of a brutal dictator was the only goal, why are we still there? The "brutal dictator" was removed years ago, and he has subsequently been tried and executed. I am going to resist the urge to climb on my soapbox, but I will say that "progress" will have to be more narrowly defined before I can say yes or no. Progress towards what? IMHO there is a lot of death, destruction, and despair in the Iraq I read about....maybe too much to label it with a positive term like progress
