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The relevant question is accountability to what standards? To a standard of how well actual performance matches up to a reasonable estimate of casualties and resources to be undergone, or to an artificial bar set high by those whose only political objective is to damage the president in the public opinion and obscure their own lack of legitimate policy alternatives.

And a second important point in any policy analysis is whether it is better to undergo a certain cost now so as not to have to pay an even higher one in the future when problems are not dealt with at the earliest opportunity.

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Note that each of these analyses requires consideration of casualties before acting, which, Andy's point is, Bush did not do. So it seems that we're all on the same page -- Bush's failure to consider casualties was at least a fundamental blunder (if not morally reprehensible).