PHOENIX - Republican John McCain was forced to clarify his comments Friday suggesting the Iraq war involved U.S. reliance on foreign oil. He said he was talking about the first gulf war and not the current conflict.

At issue was a comment he made at a town hall-style meeting Friday morning in Denver.

"My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East," McCain said.

The expected GOP nominee sought to clarify his comments later, after his campaign plane landed in Phoenix. He said he didn't mean the U.S. went to war in Iraq five years ago over oil.

"No, no, I was talking about that we had fought the gulf war for several reasons," McCain told reporters.

One reason was Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, he said. "But also we didn't want him to have control over the oil, and that part of the world is critical to us because of our dependency on foreign oil, and it's more important than any other part of the world," he said.

"If the word 'again' was misconstrued, I want us to remove our dependency on foreign oil for national security reasons, and that's all I mean," McCain said.

"The Congressional Record is very clear: I said we went to war in Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction," he said.

It was the second time in as many days that McCain had to clarify his comments. On Thursday, he backed off his assertion that pork-barrel spending led to last year's deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis.

LONG-DISTANCE BATTLE: Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama pitched improved health care and economic opportunity as they courted Guam voters from afar for the territory's Democratic presidential caucuses today.

Guam Democrats set up about 20 caucus sites in community centers, schools, an old fire station and a village gym for a day of decision that usually passes without much notice in Washington, 8,000 miles away.

This time, Obama and Clinton made their case for the territory's four convention delegates with local advertising and interviews.

Both Clinton and Obama say they have the better health plan for Guamanians.

Obama said Friday that he would support re-examination of a $5.4 million Medicaid spending limit imposed on the territory. Former President Clinton told KUAM radio earlier that his wife would work to remove the cap.

Hillary Clinton also has called for Guamanians to be able to vote in presidential elections.

CLINTON ADDS DELEGATES: Clinton improved on her win in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary Friday, picking up two more delegates 10 days after the state's primary.

The new delegates increased her margin of victory to 12 delegates, giving Clinton a total of 85 delegates in the primary, according to an analysis of election results by The Associated Press. Obama won 73 delegates.

The final two delegates could not be awarded before Friday because there were incomplete results in two congressional districts. The Pennsylvania Department of State released results for all congressional districts Friday. The results, however, are still unofficial.

They showed Clinton winning the primary with 54.6 percent of the vote, to 45.4 percent for Obama.