(CNN) -- Sarah Palin did not visit troops in Iraq, a spokesperson for
the Republican vice presidential nominee confirmed Saturday, as new
details emerged about the extent of the Alaska governor's foreign travel.

Gov. Sarah Palin's aide confirmed to CNN details of her foreign travel
Saturday.

In July of last year, Palin left North America for the first time to
visit Alaskan troops stationed in Kuwait. Palin officials originally
said her itinerary included U.S. military installations or outposts in
Germany and Kuwait, and that she had visited Ireland.

A Palin aide in Alaska said Iraq was also one of the stops on that trip.

The Boston Globe reported Saturday that Palin visited the Iraqi side of
a border crossing -- but never journeyed past the checkpoint. Earlier,
campaign aides confirmed reports that Palin's time in Ireland on that
trip had actually been a refueling stop.

The Obama campaign -- which has increasingly accused the McCain campaign
of deliberately lying in ads and on the stump -- was quick to highlight
that story, along with a news report that explored whether the McCain
campaign has been sending out wildly inflated crowd estimates.

The McCain team has twice pointed to law enforcement as the source for
those estimates -- but the same officials denied to Bloomberg News that
they had provided the numbers cited by the Republican nominee's campaign.

"The McCain campaign said Gov. Palin opposed the bridge to nowhere, but
now we know she supported it," said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor in a
statement. "They said she didn't seek earmarks, but now we know she
hired a lobbyist to get millions in pork for her town and her state.
They said she visited Iraq, but today we learned that she only stopped
at the border. Americans are starting to wonder, is there anything the
McCain campaign isn't lying about?"

A Palin spokesperson also confirmed that the governor had visited Mexico
on a personal vacation. She has also visited Canada.

The Palin revelations Saturday are the latest in a series of barbs
between the two presidential campaigns.

McCain, appearing Friday on ABC's "The View," was aggressively pressed
on Palin's qualifications to be vice president as well as his new
campaign ads that several independent fact-check groups have called
misleading.

Co-host Barbara Walters asked about Palin's reformist credentials,
noting McCain has served in Washington for more than two decades and
asking repeatedly, "Who's she going to reform, you?"

McCain answered by saying Democrats have controlled Congress for two
years, but then Walters quickly interrupted: "But tell me who she is
going to reform -- we aren't talking about the economy, we're not
talking about housing; she was chosen to reform, who is she going to
reform?"

Appearing somewhat frustrated, McCain said, "The Democrat Party, the
Republican Party, even an independent. She'll reform all of Washington."

Walters, seeming somewhat exasperated, asked, "How? What will she do?
What is she going to reform specifically, senator?"

McCain said Palin had a strong record on vetoing earmark spending.
"The fact is she was a reform governor, she took on an incumbent
governor of her own party and defeated him. She sold the airplane and
fired the chef," McCain said, referring to Palin's efforts to put her
predecessor's state jet up for auction on eBay and her dismissal of the
governor's personal chef.

"She sold the airplane at a loss," Walters interrupted.

(The jet failed to draw sufficient bids on eBay and later was sold at a
loss through an ordinary aircraft brokerage.)