prisoner of war camp under Saddam Hussein for taking up American calls during the first Gulf War to rebel, said the vote process was undemocratic. "This country gave me the opportunity to speak." A friend of Lebanese descent who also protested the amendment, Gus Mansour of Lynnwood, said "This is not because I'm against Israel -- Jerusalem is for all of us." Here are the excerpts of Bill Clinton's speech tonight issued just now by the Democratic party: In Tampa the Republican argument against the President's re-election was pretty simple: We left him a total mess, he hasn't finished cleaning it up yet, so fire him and put us back in. ... I like the argument for President Obama's re-election a lot better. He inherited a deeply damaged economy, put a floor under the crash, began the long hard road to recovery, and laid the foundation for a more modern, more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant new businesses, and lots of new wealth for the innovators. ... The most important question is, what kind of country do you want to live in? If you want a you're-on-your-own, winner-take-all society, you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared prosperity and shared responsibility - a we're-all-in-this-together society - you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The Guardian's Chris McGreal - a former Jerusalem correspondent - offers his analysis of the political context to the Democrats' platform omission and hurried