Not necessarily. If he's smart he'll be ready to claim that it's all his doing that Saddam has been forced to cooperate with the inspectors, and that the place is free from weapns of mass destruction in the end oif it, and it was all worth it. Victiry without a shot being fired.

When Kennedy took the world to the brink of catastrophe in the Cuba crisis, and then tiptoed back, he was praised as a statesman, and there weren't too many critics.

Mind the few people who were really pissed off by his "retreat" may well have been the ones who shot him, but that's another story.