Yea the Jedi Council let it happen but I still firmly believe it is Anakin that is to blame. He never accepted the Jedi way, he broke some major fucking rules. He murdered women and children, although sand people I still think the Council would not have liked that.....
Another thing I just thought about, was there a part of any of the new movies where it was confirmed that the council actually knew what he did to those sand people, or did they just know that something really bad happened involving anakin? Did yoda sense the pain that anakin was feeling about his mother dying, or was it the pain the sandpeople were feeling as they were being sliced and diced?
Damn, it's been too long since we had a good star wars discussion around here. LMAO