US President George W. Bush said Thursday the world super power strongly supports democracies like Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia which are making determined stands against extremism and showing that Islam and tolerance go hand-in-hand, Bernama reported. Delivering a speech here on the second day of his visit to the kingdom, Bush said the US and its partners across the region were working together to confront the threat of terror and counter the hateful ideology of the extremists with a more hopeful alternative. "With partners across this region, we have captured or killed some of the world's most dangerous terrorists," he said at the Queen Sirikit Convention Centre. Bush, who is leaving for Beijing Thursday to attend the Olympic Games starting Friday, said many of America's friends in Asia had also stood with them in Afghanistan and Iraq, where newly free people are replacing decades of fear with a future of hope.
