US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, just back from a trip to Iraq, met with President George W. Bush at the Camp David presidential retreat, the White House said, adding that all options remained on the table. Gates was to report to Bush on his talks with Iraqi leaders, in which he discussed ways to step up US assistance to secure violence-torn Baghdad. "The president is leaving all options on the table on the way forward," Blain Rethmeier, a White House spokesman, said in a statement. Joining Bush and Gates in the meeting in Maryland were Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser Stephen Hadley and Hadley's deputy Jack Crouch, Rethmeier said. Gates's report comes as the Bush administration is plotting some change in Iraq policy, expected to be announced next month. Bush is under intense political pressure for an overhaul of his Iraq policy, following the rout of his Republican Party in legislative elections, rock-bottom public approval of his management of the Iraq war and mounting US combat deaths.