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exploring Constitutional conflicts: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/warandtreaty.htm
The Constitution divides war powers between the Congress and the President. This division was intended by the framers to ensure that wars would not be entered into easily: it takes two keys, not one, to start the engine of war.
The Constitution's division of powers leaves the President with some exclusive powers as Commander-in-Chief (such as decisions on the field of battle), Congress with certain other exclusive powers (such as the ability to declare war and appropriate dollars to support the war effort), and a sort of "twilight zone" of concurrent powers. In the zone of concurrent powers, the Congress might effectively limit presidential power, but in the absence of express congressional limitations the President is free to act.
I believe the specific act you were referring to was the passage of a bill funding operations, and requiring the operations to end at a date certain. WHAT PART OF DOING THE JOB OF CONGRESSMAN IS TREASONOUS?