Now, Canadians throw shoes to protest Bush

Updated on: 18 March,2009 09:16 AM IST |
Agencies |

Canadians yesterday threw shoes in protest against George W Bush when he gave his first post-presidential speech in western Canada's oil patch.

Canadians yesterday threw shoes in protest against George W Bush when he gave his first post-presidential speech in western Canada's oil patch. The footwear was tossed at an effigy of the 43rd US president outside a Calgary conference centre where Bush was to speak to some 1,500 people.

Some 200 protesters from across the country had gathered for the demonstration against Bush's invasion of Iraq and rendition of terror suspects, said Colette Lemieux of the Canadian Peace Alliance. They traded insults with guests, and "three people were taken away by police," she said.

"We had shoes sent in (to us) from across the country," Lemieux said earlier, charging Bush is a "war criminal" who must be prosecuted for his policies in the US "war on terror".

Bush to write book on toughest decisions
At the conference, Bush revealed he was writing a book on the 12 toughest decisions he made in office and said he wouldn't criticise US President Barack Obama because Obama "deserves my silence".

Bush said he didn't know what he would do in the long term, but that he would write a book that asks people to consider what they would do if they had to protect the United State as president. He says it will be fun to write and that "it's going to be (about) the 12 toughest decisions I had to make".

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