WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Only one member of the German Bundestag out of 614 parliamentarians is in favor of putting the 2,900 German troops in Afghanistan in harm's way, or at least willing to say so publicly. Hans-Ulrich Klose, a Social Democrat who serves as the vice chair of the Bundestag's Foreign Affairs Committee, says there are a total of six who think the way he does but won't say so publicly. That leaves 608 representatives of the German people who are opposed to German soldiers deserting their Salvation Army mode of operations and joining U.S., British, Canadian and Dutch soldiers now doing all the fighting against Taliban guerrillas.
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