Certainly whether democracy will hold is still up in the air. With the Sunnis turning on them in greater numbers, with less and less bombings aimed at the Americans, and with more and more Sunni groups becoming involved with the government.....it certainly looking like Al Queda is increasingly seeing it's best days behind them.
Al-Zarqawi Post Mortem: How He Lost His Sunni Allies Prior to His Killing
By: D. Hazan*
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA28406