CLEVELAND - About 150 war protesters banged drums outside President Bush's speech Monday emphasizing progress in Iraq, and chanted for the Republican to leave the heavily Democratic city.

The demonstration drew an array of people but was peaceful, and there were no arrests, said Lt. Thomas Stacho, a police spokesman. About 60 officers from Cleveland and other state and local agencies watched over the protest, he said.

By contrast, no protesters showed up at Vice President Dick Cheney's appearance in Hanoverton, about 90 miles southeast of Cleveland, where he attended a fund-raiser for Republican congressional candidate Chuck Blasdel.

The president spoke to members of The City Club at a hotel in downtown Cleveland, one of the nation's poorest cities, where the unemployment rate is among the state's highest and where the Bush-Cheney ticket won only 33 percent of the vote in 2004.