Alexander Downer

He has been a firm supporter of the legality of the Iraq war and he vociferously defended the claim that weapons of mass destruction would be found in Iraq to justify the 2003 invasion of that country, long after this claim was abandoned by many others.  In August 2006, it was claimed by a former weapons inspector Dr John Gee, thaat Downer had in 2004 suppressed information that the search for weapons of mass descruction in Iraq was fundamentally flawed.