prison the u.s. started building and then abandoned. it cost $40 million. let's move on here. in the case of the military, $20 billion were spent from 2005 to 2011, but much more fell through the cracks. logistical contracts for the iraqi army were modified 161 times. with the cost, the report found the effort fell well short of achieving the goal. so why did all this happen? u.s. and iraqi officials provided a long list of reasons of essentially everything that could go wrong did go wrong. here's how the former prime minister summed it up. insufficient planning, poor oversight, a lack of security and political stability, unqualified contractors receiving contracts and