How to add post content to a page

I’m having a bit of a hard time displaying the post content on a page. I don’t know what else to add — when I use the following code my post content doesn’t display.

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="PageContent">
	<div class="general_column_text" id="Column1">
			<div class="sectionHeader"><img src="images/home/from_the_trail.jpg" alt="From The Campaign Trail" /></div>

			<div class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php _e('Permanent Link to', 'default'); ?> <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
			<div class="description">
			<?php $content = get_the_content(); ?>
			</div>

		</div>

	<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

	<?php get_footer(); ?>

But, when I use this code, my text is indented, throwing off all of my text and ruining my layout.

<?php
 $lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=3');
 foreach($lastposts as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
 <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
 <?php the_content(); ?>
 <?php endforeach; ?>

Does anyone know what to do? Any help would be much appreciated!! ??

Richard