Why did Saddam upon capture get a free dental check up I have to pay for mine but I am not a homicidal maniac!

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Why did Saddam upon capture get a free dental check up I have to pay for mine but I am not a homicidal maniac!
So get yourself sent to jail if you want free dental care.
Reply:because he wanted to look good at the gallows
Reply:So his teeth would look pretty at the hanging.
Reply:Any prisoner gets basic health care. It is the way we do things.
Reply:Because if he didn't the ACLU would have gotten him off.
Reply:So that when they slipped that noose around his neck his teeth wouldn't pop out!
Reply:The moth is the entrance to the soul he wanted to look good for Allah... don't know really just sounded good!
Reply:to show the world that he never took care of his teeth although he was so powerfull and all the tooth paste available in iraq are all american made!
Reply:sometimes captured people will chew down on a cyanide tablet
Reply:Its part of our ethics as a society.





(Although I totally agree with you on an emotional level...)
Reply:Because the US government likes to treat the criminals with respect like they did some great heroic thing and they are the greatest person walking on the planet Earth. Goshallama:)
Reply:You commit a crime, you go to jail. As a prisoner you become the responsibility of the taxpayers. WE taxpayers don't want you to sue us, so we pay for dentists and doctors to keep you as healhty as possible during your stay.





We worry far too much about what we think the government ought to give us for "free".





There is no such thing as free. You will pay for your "free" dentist 10 times over in the form of income tax, alcohol tax, tobacco tax, and anything else they can think to tax. If you don't work and pay taxes, then those of us who do will pay even more.





That "free" dentist still has to be paid for his services, you see.





I'm proud of the fact that I have a job and am responsible for my health insurance. This root canal in my upper pre-molar is a tribute to the fact that I am and adult and am free and can take care of myself.





I'll wear that porcelain crown like a crown of gold.
Reply:He didn't. They were checking for vials of poison, like the Nazis used to avoid the hangman's noose. You hide them under your tongue and bite them when all other hope is lost.