Original sauce for that is NPR. So it's probably mostly spin.
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/685932903/palestinian-school-and-sewage-projects-unfinished-as-u-s-cuts-final-bit-of-aid
Dubya isn't a good guy. But he's a push-over. I think it's not implausible that he could turn (or be turned) state's witness.
The watch Q posted has a much larger face than the one GWB is wearing in that pic.
It's possibly a typo produced on a Spanish layout keyboard. The inverted question mark is near what might be an apostrophe on this layout (pic related). Of course, it also has an apostrophe in the usual place. Perhaps a Spanish anon can weight in.
Yeah. The HTML is rendering correctly.
In both version of the article the text get chopped off at exactly 256 chars. This is a significant number to programming. The data was apparently sent through a system with a text-string data field of limited size. It a bug.