> Assuming you are US-American, I shouldn't say that you invaded Iraq either, should I? I think most Americans are comfortable with the sentence "we invaded Ir

> Assuming you are US-American, I shouldn't say that you invaded Iraq either, should I? I think most Americans are comfortable with the sentence "we invaded Iraq" if that is what you mean. Also "we won our independence from the UK", even if their ancestors were English for generations after that war happened, in the sense that the individual is a member of the group "Americans", and "Americans" is the group that fought the war.