French Ambassador to the United States Jean David Levitte left, listens in as German Ambassador to the United States Wolfgang Ischinger anwsers a reporter's question during an anouncement of a new program between the United States, France and Germany at the National Press Club on December 12, 2003 in Washington. Both gentlemen tried to avoid questions regarding the decision by the United States to keep companies from their countries from gaining contracts in Iraq..(UPI Photo/Michael Kleinfeld)