The 12 "it is us" hits are of the form "Too often it is us, the anxious onlookers" or " because it is us Germans who are today leading the way". If you clean the results by searching for a comma after "it is we" you get only 6 results. Add on a 'the' collocate and it falls to only two. I expect you're right. More @Wikipedia
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