Is America "our" nation?

A lot of people when referring to the united states (or whatever country they happen to be surrounded by) will say "our nation" or "our government" etc. But is it really ours?

If one person robbed a bank and you were telling the story about the robbery, would you say "we robbed the bank"? Of course not; but people routinely refer to the criminal organisations known as governments as their's. "we bombed Iraq" "we've killed a million Iraqis" "my president did this and that" and it goes on and on. Everyone uses this language when in reality they most often have nothing to do with the actions taken by the president, or congress, or the systems as a whole.
Or do they? Can our words connect us with actions?

Mat 23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
Mat 23:30 And say, If WE had been in the days of our fathers, WE would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Mat 23:31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Mat 23:32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Mat 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Mat 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Mat 12:37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.