5 + Z = What?

5 Years
4,000 Dead American Soldiers (so far)
6,256 American Veterans took their own lives in one year (2005)
30,000 seriously wounded
18 months, the average wait time for a soldier to get his or her disability approved.
800,000 cases backlogged in the VA system
25% of enlistees and 50% of reservists come back with serious mental health issues.
X = the undocumented number of American family members adversely affected by returning soldiers.
2,000,000 displaced Iraqis (that means refugees)
Y = the number of dead Iraqis (we don’t keep count)
3,000,000,000 dollars, the total cost of the Iraq occupation so far
Z = the number of years we will continue to stay in Iraq