So take with grain of salt. Also, too, this is from memory. But years ago a reader wrote in and said he'd been a little tipsy on the streets of New York and bumped into our Tommy Friedman. Being a little tipsy he said he'd bumped into Friedman and first mistakenly asked if he was Paul Krugman. Upon realizing who he was, he asked if he'd really said we went to war in Iraq to tell Iraqis to "Suck On This." Friedman replied, "That doesn't sound like something I would say."
This has been another edition of unverifiable anecdote blogging.