This is the whole point of what the posts have been arguing. Hiruzen was never legitimately labelled the strongest Hokage because the majority of people never took Hashirama's full strength into account. That's the point of Kabuto's statement. It compromises Iruka's words. It's just like saying Ronaldo is the best footballer in the world when you don't know anything about Messi. Even Tsunade lacked information regarding her grandfather. A fair, accurate and valid comparison by the masses could obviously not take place. Iruka's words cannot be absolute.
@Bold Again, this is an assumption. I understand the point you're trying to make, however, whether Hashirama's full strength was considered or not is unknown. The facts are, that people witnessed it to be able to tell it, (Mito most likely even witnessed the perfect susano'o) the facts are, that some people actually believed it, hell that majority could even be from outside the village. As it stands, we have people that witnessed and/or believed this power and didn't think it was anything God-tier.
You need to understand, that the line "many people didn't believe" doesn't makes Iruka's statement untrue in the least, simply because we don't know of the circumstances surrounding his title. It is assumption that the people that said Hiruzen is the stongest hokage didn't believe in Hashirama's power, is it not? That's the point.
Oh yeah, and the point you keep bringing up about Tsunade and being his granddaughter, and Gokage doesn't have any relevance at all since there's a minority (probably not even related to him lol) that believes in his power.
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