Julian Assange is a brave man. Wikileaks reveals true facts about the dirty secrets of the world. The world has a right to know. These are the underlying facts of Wikileaks’ much touted disclosure of nearly 400 thousand classified documents about the United States’ war in Iraq.

Undisputably the largest one-off disclosure of classified documents about american military activities, the 22 October release was enshrounded in a veil of awe. The United States officials condemned the release, keeping true to their policy that any crimes are ok as long as they are kept under the rug. Julian Assange played the fugitive running for his life. Amazon AWS played the bad corporation who is in cahoots with the criminal government and shredded Wikileaks from its servers. The world held its breath.

And then it came. Not the proverbial shot Rage Against the Machine sings about but The Dud. Contrary to everyone’s expectations, the 391832 documents published online (crashing one of the three hosts employed by Wikileaks) had little no effect in the Western world. There was no public outcry, no ressurection of protests. Nobody shouted, no new revolts, not even in the arab world. How come?

Are the documents real? Yes. Are they true? Yes. Is this the biggest disclosure ever? Definitely. Then?

Then: there is nothing we didn’t already know.

• The war in Iraq is a war that defies any and all international laws, it was based on lies, it is one of the greatest crimes against humanity, right next to the fabled Holocaust.
• The United States military, alongside it’s intelligence services, lies.
• They lie about not keeping scores of whom, when, why and where they killed.
• They lie about whom: they kill innocent civilians on every occasion. Sometimes they appologize, then kill some more, appologize some more and then kill some more over again. Other times they label civilians as insurgents, a knowing lie in official documents.
• They lie about why they kill. They kill unarmed civilians at checkpoints, often without warning. Security contractors often kill people for fun, as do some of the military. They kill people in their homes, at checkpoints, on the streets, on the road, in markets, basically with every occasion.
• The United States loves torture. They tortured people before and after the Abu Ghraib scandal, they helped other countries torture people, they allow the Iraqi government to torture its own people. They still torture people. They will continue torturing people by any and all means ever invented by the sick human mind.
• The United States loves to spend. They will cut Healthcare budgets and increase military spending, running the economy further into ground, proving once and for all that things can get worse than under Bush JR. The national buget loses the money that private corporations are gaining.
• The United States loves War. War is good business, killing people is good business, keeping people scared is even better than those put together. Unfortunately as in Africa guns are now cheaper than water, a new market is needed.

The Iraq War Logs details 109032 killings. However, they only cover less than 6 years of war and are not complete. But they also don’t tell us anything new, it’s just the same thing we’ve known all alongs: the United States army loves killing, loves war and loves torture.

As Stalin put it: the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic. The numbers keep increasing but the public grows numb.