Voters for this year's presidential election are drowning in a sea of misconception. Michael Modest made a lot of claims in his letter to the editor yesterday ("Republicans should not follow party lines" Wed. Oct. 20 ), but not many that truly give Republicans or supporters of President Bush a lot of credit. Iraq is not a war of aggression. Iraq is a war of humanity. Many Penn State students roll out of their comfortable beds every morning, doll themselves up in their designer clothes and trot off to class to get a quality education. They do not have to worry about whether or not they will live through the day. Terrorist or not, the people of Iraq deserved a better life. They have been suppressed and tortured for so many years and with Saddam Hussein out of power the country will be better off. The press and, most importantly, the Democrats like to make Bush a power hungry warmonger. Why wouldn't they, it is an election year is it not? When it wasn't an election year even the Democrat's candidate voted for this war. We live in a different time now. It is tough to remember the way it was before Sept. 11. We must be preemptive in our foreign policy or we will be stuck cleaning up the ruins of another American tragedy. It took a lot for me to get over what happened in 2001, but I will never forget it. Unfortunately, to free the people of the world, to share the freedoms that you and I take for granted every single day, some soldiers will fall in the process. It is a harsh truth, but a truth just the same. These misconceptions run a vivid course through this campaign.