Please call it "Military" and Not "Defense"
It's always a shame when we speak from a handicapped frame.
Please minimize the talking and writing of "Defense Spending" 
It is better to call it "Military"

Isn't "defense" kind of a good thing?
Could there ever really be Too Much Defense?
We need to be "defended" without adequate "defense" we are all dead ...

Yes, certain language is so prominent that it is understandable that even our best spokespeople often use
the euphemistic (Rove/Luntz-speak) language that generally flies on "Meet the Press" & everywhere else
on the Tee Vee. 

A similar case of avoiding the word "conservative" & "voting with language" is at
http://conservative.factormyth.com.

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