Crook-Kid
I would agree with you, if I didn't hate the Third so much. Asuma may be one of my favorite characters, but I despise Hiruzen.
Reason being, his abilities. Hashirama has Wood Release, possibly the strongest nature release. Tobirama gets Water Release, and invented the Shadow Clone (and Edo Tensei, but there's no way he could've foreseen it being used the way it did). Minato had the whole Flying Thunder God thing, which was crazy badass, and Tsunade has goddamn super strength.
What does Hiruzen have? A big stick.
Not to mention the fact that he just allowed Danzo to do all the s**t he did instead of killing him or locking him up like he should have. Like seriously, what the hell? He totally let the Uchiha massacre happen. Didn't even try to stop it. Hiruzen was weak as all hell as a leader.
Like I said, Tobirama had no way of knowing that Edo Tensei would be used like that. Kabuto is just a straight up piece of s**t anyway. He's literally the only Naruto character with absolutely ZERO redeeming qualities. Anyway, "the technique was intended for the dead to be reincarnated into soldiers able to clear a battlefield with devastating and under any other circumstance suicidal attacks." (From Naruto wiki). Tobirama did realize it's potential usage for evil and labeled it a kinjutsu (forbidden) and sealed it away. Not his fault Orochimaru stole it and Kabuto is such a little s**t.
EDIT: What Tobirama SHOULD have done, is require that any excessively powerful Ninja (Kage, Madara, Akatsuki, etc) who dies must have their soul consumed by the Shinigami using the Dead Demon Consuming Seal. Then they can't be reincarnated using Edo Tensei. While this would also prevent them from entering heaven, it would solve a lot of problems. Edo Tensei wouldn't do anything for Kabuto if he was just reincarnating random-a** ninja that Naruto could defeat with ease.
Actually you're right about the third hokage. So would that put hashirama at the top? Because if Tobirama created the war then I don't know about him being the best. Tsunade is probably the worst though.
Actually, all of the hokage were sealed by the demon consuming seal, but because Orochimaru is a b***h he found some BS loophole that let him revive them anyways. So I don't think even that would have worked.
It's like dragon ball z all over again- you should never create something that can break the laws of the world because it will just create more death and struggle in the long run. Edo Tensei may have been created with good intentions, but in the end it should never have been created at all. Period.
Can I just say that 'forbidden jutsu' are pretty much bullshit though? I mean, Naruto was 10 years old when he got a hold of that scroll and learned a jutsu from it. If a child could do that, then either konoha needs to get it's s**t together or they need to... get their s**t together. Who was even guarding the scroll? Naruto couldn't even make
one proper clone when he stole it, so what the hell? how did he get in there if he was a child with no experience at all, unless no one was even guarding the damn thing? for chrissake people!
Just like with the dragon balls which attracted evil people to them so they could become immortal, a jutsu like edo tensei will (and did) attract evil people who will misuse it.
Like i said in the other post, I think that konohagakure is just a shitty village to live in. Maybe it should have been the Uchiha who became hokage and the Senju should have gone extinct. Clearly they're proving to be terrible leaders with a horrible lack of foresight. All of them.
So yeah. That's my opinion.