That's the sub-head on this CNN story:

CNN.com - Vindicated Blix returns to U.S. - Mar 16, 2004

OK, one more time. Hans Blix is not a hero. Even if the existence of WMD were the only reason for removing Saddam (they weren't), or even the only stated reason (they weren't), Blix and his job were a dead-end. What we have found in Iraq were large numbers of programs waiting to be re-started the moment the UN sanctions were lifted. Eventually, the sanctions were going to be lifted - sometime after Hans Blix certified Iraq WMD free...and left the country. Blix certainly wasn't going to stay forever, and Saddam certainly had no track record of cooperation with regard to international non-proliferation regimes.

With the inspectors gone and the sanctions down, it would be back to business as usual. The sheets come off the programs, the support for terror and suicide bombing goes back on line and the mass graves, torture and rape rooms get busy again. Hans Blix was just the tool through which an evil man could manipulate a corrupt organization (the UN) to enrich himself and stay in power. Now that doesn't make old Hans an intentionally bad man, but it's nothing to be proud of.