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Published February 2, 2005

Good can come out of evil. A democratic, peaceful and independent Iraq could yet be the final result of the U.S. invasion of 2003, whether that was precisely what the Bush administration intended or not. But it still doesn't seem very likely.

Sunday's election was just one more in the series of "turning points" that have been touted in Washington as the beginning of the end of the insurgency against...