Not Your Sweetie

Sabotaging Clinton's ME peace - by Bushco
I knew of Perle - and my story is a bit less one sided than yours - and fits better with the facts: Perle sabotaged the peace talks by going to BOTH SIDES in the conflict and making promises to each that if they hang on with the signing business hereby helping Bush the Lesser ascend the throne - there'll be something special in it for them.
As it happens, it was Arafat who went for it and not Sharon. It would take 6 months later, Summer Solstice 2001 - Arafat would figure out he was taken and would say: "I now want to sign that peace"
The half of the story you tell was printed in the Guardian reflecting their biases. The missing half reflects the facts.
Yes, Bushco (Perle was just a proxy) is responsible for every death in ME since 2000. And knowing this, how much more despicable and cynical is W's mind-boggling pronouncement: "The killing in ME is Clinton's fault - he raised expectations" (Fleisher voiced it, retracted it, then Bush said it again in an interview with a German magazine and had to sorta apologize).
Richard Perle didn't really resigned from anything. Seymour Hersch from the New Yorker had exposed his corruption and PNAC conquest dreams. Arrogant Perle threatened to sue Hersch - and in UK, no less. He was advised to step off the limelight. He is still there, same duties, just less titles.
As for Tom Delay's demented rantings - they surely don't help any these days. But I am not aware of his involvement at the time there was an actual chance of peace.