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Sept. 24, 2009. Also Hugo Chavez Describes Assassination Plot By Bush Admin during Larry King Interview./// Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, says he likes one of the President Barack Obamas whom he sees. "We have an Obama that talked about peace,'' Chavez said, in an interview aired tonight on CNN's Larry King Live conducted at Venezuela's mission to the United Nations in New York. Speaking of the American president's call for peace at the UN General Assembly this week, Chavez said: "We accept that.'' "However, there is another Obama,'' Chavez said, "the Obama sponsoring war, using the presence of military officers and'' and bases in South America. So why buy tanks and rockets from Russia, as Venezuela is doing? "All countries have a defense system,'' Chavez said, suggesting that, for a long time, Venezuela purchased F-16s from the United States, but then the US would not sell Venezuela parts. "Now we have (gone) to other options.'' What is the threat? Seven US bases in Colombia, Chavez said. "Venezuela has the largest oil reserve, and Venezuela has to defend itself,'' Chavez told King. Asked about Venezuela triggering a regional arms race, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned, Chavez said: "I think she is totally lost.'' "I think the United States and the secretary of state should be concerned about the poverty in this country, the people without health insurance,'' Chavez said. "In Venezuela, our defense budget is one of the lowest of the whole <b>...</b>