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Robert Gates, the incoming US Defence Secretary, said yesterday that the US was not winning the war in Iraq and that time was running out. Unless the country was stabilised soon, Iraq’s troubles would likely spread into a “regional conflagration” across the Middle East, he said.

Giving a blunt and extraordinarily candid assessment, he also said that the Pentagon had clearly sent too few troops to stabilise the country after the removal of Saddam Hussein. Mr Gates’s critique of Washington’s fortunes on the ground contradicted directly Mr Bush’s claim last week that “absolutely we are winning” in Iraq.

His veiled criticism of troop levels was a swipe at Donald Rumsfeld, whom he has

replaced at the Defence Department. In doing so, Mr Gates, 63, made clear, on the opening day of his confirmation hearings, that he would approach the job of Defence Secretary as his own man. He would speak “frankly and boldly” to the White House and Congress about the problems facing the US in Iraq, he said: “I can assure you thatI don’t owe anybody anything.”

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