9 Non-Commie World Leaders Shaking Hands With Communist & Other "unSavory" Ones

Oh we thought President Barack Obama was the only one not permitted to shake hands with a communist. That is apparently what some have been most upset about after an image of Obama shaking hands with Raul Castro during the Nelson Mandela Memorial hit media streams today. Hmmm...those raising the biggest stink might want to scale that back a bit or otherwise equally condemn these other 9, mainly Republican leaders in history who also sat down with communist, Marxist, Islamic leaders that many have deemed to not be the good guys! Credit: Gus_802 on Twitter whose feed these were all scrubbed from

2012 GOP presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich, shaking hands with Yasser Arafat

VP Richard Nixon shaking hands with Fidel Castro

Republican President Richard Nixon shaking hands with communist Mao Zedong

Republican President Ronald Reagan shaking hands with commie Red SOVIET leader, Mikhail Gorbachev

Republican President Ronald Reagan meets with the Mujahideen in the White House

Republican Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein

Pope John Paul II, shaking hands with Fidel Castro

Conservative icon and hero, Margaret Thatcher, shaking hands with Robert Mugabe

Former Pres. George H.W. Bush shaking hands with former Bolivarian & Chavista Hugo Chavez