When Bush,and others, say that the guest worker programs are broken, they are not talking about the D-1 or the H1B.
It's just wide enough so that UAE will be able to bring in people that most likely will not be screened, posing a terrorist threat and will end up replacing American workers Rush and others keep saying isn't going to happen.
It'll be interesting to see if anyone in the media picks up on the existence of the D-1 visa, I've never heard of it until today.
I've got to read up more on the D-1, I think it just applies to the owners of the vessels themselves.