Democracy was what it was in ancient Greece, in which everyone's word had the same weight when taking a decision regarding's city's policy.
It is not the case anymore with XX century's "democracies"
I'll give you a single example about what american XX century democracy is:
The Gulf of Tonkin incident (the pretext which actually started the Vietnam war).. How is this different than what they officially say Germany did to Poland? In only one aspect.. Germany didn't won..