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Bush's effigy burned outside Montreal hotel

MONTREAL — As George W. Bush joked with a business crowd inside a historic hotel ballroom Thursday, hundreds of people outside the room cheered while he was being burned in effigy.

Police in riot gear and others on horseback held back a crowd of hundreds, including several people who tossed shoes at the Queen Elizabeth hotel in a demonstration of disdain for the man speaking inside...

... Ironically, this anti-war protest took place outside the same hotel where the ultimate anti-war anthem — John Lennon’s Give Peace a Chance — was recorded in 1969.

Chants of “George Bush terrorist” echoed in the street as some of the 300 protesters said they refused to accept that Canada would roll out the red carpet for a man they called a war criminal.
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