Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer: 'I do not see the Military Commander of Fiji as a political player in all this. Let me make this very clear: it is not the job of a military commander to play politics; it is the job of the military commander to command troops and the Government is to decide where those troops get deployed, whether to Iraq or RAMSI. It is not the role of the commander to play domestic politics.' (29 September 2005, on Bainimarama's opposition to the Reconciliation and Unity Bill (q.v.).