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Originally Posted by Sabaku Kyu
You're correct as usual. Though I guess what I should've said is that Danzou hid his dirty dealings pretty well. So even though several didn't like him, there was never anything incriminating enough justify simply getting rid of him. We only recognize him as an obvious threat because we see behind the curtain as readers
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But more seriously you're correct only up to a point : yes of course Danzou worked covertly but as I said it wasn't that much of a secret if Yamato knew about his method. If you remember none of the Kage trusted him and they saw him as the dark side of the ninja world which is telling when you think about what those guys have done themselves.
I mean, just take the killing orphans thing, can you honestly say that such a known fact would be accepted as the price of doing business by Sandaime given what we know of his character? I think not.
As often my point isn't to say that within the story Sandaime is supposed to be seen as a weak and ineffectual leader, it's that if you look at things logically it must be the case and since it doesn't seem to be the author's intent then there is a problem. Hence why I think that Danzou and Sarutobi should have been the same character : A man who looked like this perfect loving grand father and genuinely so for his own people but who also was the ruthless cold blooded warlord who had done terrible evils for the "greater good" of his village.