Palpatine played the two Jedi like a violin -- He ably confronted and defeated three Master Jedi, then battled, threatened and infuriated Mace past the point of reason. Palps hood-winked Anakin reminding him that only he, the Sith Master, knew how to save Padme -- and that could happen only if Anakin kept Mace from killing him.
I agree that it was Mace who blew it first, but only after some very careful and deliberate manipulation by Palps in the presence of Anakin. Anakin, like Master Windu, took the bait that Palpatine offered hook, line and sinker.
Anakin did the right thing in defending Palps, but for all the wrong reasons (mainly for Padme and by extension himself instead for of the principles of the Jedi code that Anakin cited). Anakin did not kill Windu -- but his actions resulted in Mace's death.
What I find ironic about this particular scene is at first Anakin uses the Jedi code as the reason for defending Palps, but once Mace throws the code out the door, prepares to kill Palps and then Anakin unarming him, Anakin all-too-quickly accepts Palpatine's premise that all of the Jedi (even the younglings) must die. Instead of one dead Sith at the hand of Windu there are untold dead Jedi at the hand of Anakin -- and somehow Anakin finds acceptable reasoning in this outcome.
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""It's better to burn out than fade away" Kurt Cobain
"A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." Mark Twain
"This party's over." Mace Windu, AOTC
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