Congressman Eliot Engel, of New York, cut through all the bullshit, and asked General Petraeus directly, how he can sit there spouting the same lines he gave in September of 2004, none of which came to fruition and expect the country to accept the assessment again 3 years later. The General said he stands by his original New York Times OpEd of 2004, but never got to answer the part as to why the country should accept that this time things will be different.