Staying The Tortured Course

I saw Kristian Menchaca's brother on CNN last night. This was before the bodies were found. He couldn't even lift his head and said he'd tried to prepare himself for his brother being killed ... but not kidnapped. I guess he knew that kidnapping would mean this:

The bodies of two US soldiers who went missing south of Baghdad were found, as the military said it killed 15 insurgents but Iraqi police and a rights activist claimed they were ordinary poultry farm workers.

The bodies of the two soldiers, Kristian Menchaca, 23, and Thomas L. Tucker, 25, were found in a brutally 'tortured' condition, General Abdul Aziz Mohammed of the Iraqi defense ministry said.

'The two US soldiers were found in the Yusifiyah area near the power station and unfortunately their bodies show that they had been tortured and then killed viciously,' the general told a news conference.

The soldiers went missing Friday night after they came under attack at a traffic control point near Yusifiyah, along the Euphrates river. One soldier was also killed in the attack.

The Mujahedeen Shura (consultative) Council, a coalition of insurgent groups led by Al-Qaeda in Iraq, claimed Monday it had abducted the two soldiers.

The US military had launched a massive hunt for Menchaca and Tucker with nearly 8,000 troops searching for them by land, water and air. Seven US troops were wounded in action during the search operations."

Is this what we need to expect as we "stay the course?"

Update: This just makes me nauseous!