On The Scene: A New War

(CBS)  In his first trip to Baghad since the war began, Gen. Tommy Franks visited the troops and although the military campaign he masterminded may be an almost unqualified success, the job of re-establishing order and infrastructure will be a much tougher challenge.

The man charged with winning that war is Major General Buford Blount. He said his first concern is the safety of his troops.

"Any transition can be dangerous. What we can't loose sight of is that there is still a fight with the terrorists, with the Fedayeen. They've imported some people from other countries that want to kill Americans, want to kill U.S. soldiers," says Blount.

But the question remains if we are likely to see a classic guerilla campaign against the American forces.

"I don't believe so. The Iraqi people are really stepping forward and they're not going to stand for that. The Iraqi people want their freedom, they want the old regime gone and I think they're stepping forward to ensure that that happens," says Blount.

Still, the U.S. military has taken on an enormous job in getting Iraq up and running again and men trained to be warriors don't easily become civil engineers.

"We're not plumbers and electricians, we're a combat unit," says Blount.

These infantrymen, exausted from the long wait in the desert and the hard march up from Kuwait are still ready to take on the general's orders.

"Most of our focus is on war fighting, going out and getting the bad guys, but just seeing the look on these peoples face when we helped them get medical supplies helped them get food and water, in a lot of ways that's what we're here for," Blount says.

Among the most critical places to get up and running are Iraq's hospitals. General Blount personally delivered food and supplies to Kademiyah medical center where he sat down to talk to the doctors there.

"We're gonna have the power back on in the city very soon," he promised them.

But he may have gotten more than he bargained for.

"There are a lot of unexploded cluster bombs. Children play around with them and they just blow up. There are missiles, massive missiles in neighborhoods. I think these should be your priorities before anything else," the doctor told Gen. Blount.

A Colonel stepped in to take the Doctor's questions, but this general remains convinced that his soldiers have made good progress.

"If you look at what has happened, where we were 8 days ago, I know that everybody wants it done now, but the progress that's happening just is phenomenal," says Blount.