The string of firings is raising questions about just who is being held accountable as the nation prepares to enter its fifth year of the war in Iraq.

From TIME:

The string of firings [pertaining to outpatient care at Walter Reed] is raising questions about just who is being held accountable as the nation prepares to enter its fifth year of the war in Iraq. . . . [A]s the war the Bush administration predicted would be a "cakewalk" before it began has bogged down, not a single civilian boss or top military commander has taken a similar fall.

The contrast seems stark. Tommy Franks, the Army general who as chief of Central Command scuttled Anthony Zinni's more robust war plan and agreed with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that invasion-lite was the way to go, got the Presidential Medal of Freedom. So did former CIA chief George ("Slam Dunk") Tenet and L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer, who as Iraqi viceroy fired the entire Iraqi army, a move now widely seen as laying the groundwork for a sustained insurgency.