Former prime minister John Howard has hit out at several of the Rudd Government's policies while giving a major speech in the United States. 

Mr Howard has given an address at a gala dinner for the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. 

He has told the audience that scrapping the WorkChoices laws is the first time in 25 years that a major economic reform has been reversed. 

And he has described his disappointment at the moves to bring Australian troops home from Iraq. 

'No one should doubt what is at stake in Iraq,' he said. 

'There is a view in some quarters that Afghanistan is the good war and Iraq somehow a distraction from winning the war on terror. 

'While it may be politically convenient this view is profoundly naive and dangerous.' 

Gus: not a "sorry" to be seen....