>>It might feel wrong, because we would have to admit that the Bush administration is not entirely evil, but feelings aren't the right indicator here. The evidence is. So far, there is no evidence that any other government has made the call for democracy. It would take but a single shred to disprove the claim.
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>AFAIK no other government outside the US has ever made the call for democracy. But it certainly isn't a new idea. Just one example: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4943/

At the time all democracy was under attack by several nations. Wilson's call was to defense against this attack.

The idea that we should spread democracy pre-emptively is new.

In WWII if we had this idea we would have prevented Hitler from even becoming a dictator rather than waiting until he was at war with the world. There mightn't have been a WWII.