Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-36528625-20180810001142/@comment-5407586-20180824194014

KyfieLita68 wrote: Not saying Itachi on par with Madara, but the context purely hints to power. Why would he praise him on how he stopped a war and possesses various other unknown jutsu, if it was regarding something else? How'd "secrets" be of any use to him when he has the Edo tensei & Orochimaru's powers added with Sage Mode and himself claimed he was closer to Hagoromo more than anyone else? Because Kabuto had an identity crisis. He was jealous of Itachi belonging to the Uchiha clan, not because of the Uchiha power but due to having something he could call an identity. The reason Itachi cast Izanami on Kabuto (aside from incapacitating him in order to release the Edo Tensei) was so that the latter could find his own identity, because the Uchiha sympathized with his enemy.

Kabuto said that Itachi was his finest reanimation, not strongest. Had it been about power, he'd have said "second finest", after Madara.