this has been my view for a long time. claims of detached rationality are performative, almost always. primate social dynamics are omnipresent and only thinly veiled in most contexts.
which is not to say there weren't other interests pushing for that war for different reasons but as for W. himself, the man with the ultimate decision on the matter, I don't think he was nearly as responsive to global geopolitical arguments as he was to family feud narratives