I think where there's smoke there's fire. If you read Pantano's own report you will see that he screwed up.
How did he screw up? Two terrorists are dead and his marines are alive. Is that what you call a screw up? Is that what the mom of 2 marines calls a screwup. Will it make you feel good if your marine sons die in Iraq as long as they were following some "brainless" set of regulations drawn up by some pentagon idiot?