it is clinging to power problem. when you screw up this big and get millions of people killed it is hard to move on from that without consequences. pragmatic people want to move on but would like to punish these idiots to prevent it from happening again. when you make money off war that means your gravy train is gone and you might go to jail if there is an investigation into a disastrous policy even if you are not entirely blamed for it. they probably did something illegal to get there. not just make some bad decisions.
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